Perhaps the most interesting piece of art from Virginia Tech’s exhibitis pictured above. It’s the “Cover by unknown artist showing a Martian as proposed by Hugo Gernsback in his article “Evolution on Mars”. From Science and Invention, formerly Electrical Experimenter Vol. XII Whole Number 136 (No.4) August 1924.” It looks very similar to artist Frank Paul's cover for Martianthology (2003), an anthology compiled by Forrest J Ackerman and edited by Anne Hardin!

"I'm an optimist. I discard all such dark tomorrows. I have faith in man as God and God as man; I believe we'll be immortal, seed the stars and live forever in the flesh of our children. That's my job as a writer -- to show man his basic goodness, to dramatize his struggle up and away from this planet." -- RB